Earlier than you begin pondering that people in historical Pompeii had been chowing down on a Dominoes XL Meat Lover’s Plus Pizza or no matter, it’s essential to notice all of the variations between the dish we’ve found and its trendy descendant. Additionally: No self-respecting Italian — even these residing over 2,000 years in the past, we assume — would go inside 10 ft of Dominoes. Simply saying.
Because the BBC factors out, the Pompeii-zza in query was extra of a flatbread topped with a bunch of savory and candy gadgets. We’ve bought apricots, peaches, apples, quail eggs, a little bit of cheese, and a bay leaf unfold over a smallish, round, thick, baked bread with a pizza-like crust. There may need been some pureed fruit concerned, in addition to some heat honey poured into the middle of all of it. So positive, it goes arduous on the carbs however is admittedly extra of a mealtime fruit unfold organized on an edible plate.
And lo and behold, that’s precisely the joke written within the epic Latin poem “The Aeneid” by Virgil: “To interrupt the fateful circles of bread boldly with arms and jaws, not sparing the quartered desserts, Iulus, jokingly, stated not more than: ‘Ha! Are we consuming the tables too?’” “The Aeneid,” written a number of many years after Pompeii was destroyed, additionally offers us a reputation for the dish: adoreum (singular), or adorea (plural). Sounds an terrible lot like “adore,” doesn’t it? The phrase isn’t associated, however we’re fairly positive of us did adore it.